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Spitzer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226273136, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.3x16.5 cm, 1 colour plate, 7 halftones, 95 line drawings, 76 musical examples

"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of...

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Verdi-Boito Correspondence

Verdi Giuseppe, Boito Arrigo

ISBN: PB: 9780226273891, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, musical examples throughout

These 301 letters between Giuseppe Verdi and his last, most gifted librettist, Arrigo Boito, document an extraordinary chapter in musical history. Now available for the first time in English, this correspondence records both a unique friendship and i...

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Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

Beckwith Naomi, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates

On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement. "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...

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Virtual Haydn Paradox of a Twenty-First Century Keyboardist

Beghin Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226156774, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates, 23 halftones, 69 line drawings, 8 tables

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days was...

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Civic Jazz American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along

Clark Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226218212, ISBN: HB: 9780226218182, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that...

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Culture Studies

Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

Weisbard Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...

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Triumph of Pleasure Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

Cowart Georgia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211558, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 16 musical examples, 3 tables

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet...

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Prague Soundscapes

Jurkova Zuzana

ISBN: PB: 9788024625157, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
340 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 64 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Dvorak's opera Rusalka at the National Theatre. A punk concert in an underground club. The hypnotic chanting of Hare Krishnas joyfully dancing through the streets. These are the sounds of...

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Anthropology

Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia

Jankowsky Richard C.

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226392196, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 7 tables, 7 halftones, 12 line illus.

In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an ela...

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Culture Studies

Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960

Fry Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings

The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...

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